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Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Foreign Trade Will Be Discussed at ECLAC

12 Jun 2013 | News

See photo gallery Bananas, coffee, soya, wine, shrimps and flowers are some of the Latin American exports that are measuring their carbon footprint. Motivated by reaching new markets and ensuring their activities are sustainable, in recent years governments and businesses have begun to be concerned about the environmental impact of their export activities. Many such experiences will be analysed at the 5th ECLAC International Seminar on carbon footprints - "Public and private practices to reduce the environmental footprint of international trade", organized by the Economic Commission for…

Seminar on Indicators of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Will Be Held at ECLAC

10 Jun 2013 | News

In the presence of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepúlveda, a seminar aimed at driving the regional debate on building a system of indicators for human rights to follow-up and assess social policy in Latin American and Caribbean countries will be held on 12 and 13 June 2013 in Santiago, Chile. The International seminar on indicators for economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) and follow-up to social policies to overcome poverty and achieve equality is being organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC…

International Experts to Discuss Cooperation Over Shared Waters

10 Jun 2013 | News

Watch video message by the ECLAC Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena (in Spanish). A hundred participants from Latin American and Caribbean countries sharing transboundary waters will come together at a workshop in Buenos Aires on 11 and 12 June 2013 to discuss transboundary water cooperation within the Latin American and Caribbean region. The Workshop on transboundary water cooperation: Latin American and Pan-European regions: sharing experiences and learning from each other is organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), in partnership with the United N…

New York, 28 and 29 May 2013: Twenty-seventh session of the Committee of the Whole of ECLAC

24 May 2013 | News

The session of 28 May will begin at 3:00 p.m. and will be held in conference room 3, North Lawn Building (CR3 NLB) of United Nations headquarters. Preliminary programme (PDF, 468 Kb.) The twenty-seventh session of the Committee of the Whole of ECLAC will be held on 28 and 29 May 2013 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Committee of the Whole is the subsidiary body of ECLAC which enables member Governments to meet between sessions of the Commission. On this occasion the Committe will consider following agenda items: Economic and social ove…

Head of the United Nations Mission in Haiti Will Deliver an Address at ECLAC

16 May 2013 | News

The Secretary-General's Special Representative, Ad Interim, and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Nigel Fisher, will visit the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, on Monday 20 May. At 11.00 a.m., the senior official will deliver an address on the activities of MINUSTAH and the development challenges in Haiti, to an audience made up of UN officials, academics and diplomats. He will be received by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, who will welcome him on behalf of this regional c…

Latin America-Asia Pacific Observatory Is Now Available Online

16 May 2013 | News

Information on 37 economies (19 from Latin America and 18 from Asia Pacific), which includes macroeconomic and trade statistics, data on trade/investment agreements and ongoing negotiations, is featured on the website of the Latin America-Asia Pacific Observatory (://www.observatorioasiapacifico.org/), which was launched on 15 May 2013 at the headquarters of the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) in Montevideo. The Observatory, which was set up in 2012, is a joint initiative of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), ALADI and CAF-Latin American Develo…

Region's Countries Will Discuss Rights of Access in Environmental Matters in Guadalajara

15 Apr 2013 | News

The Second Meeting of Focal Points of the signatories of the Declaration on the implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is being organized by ECLAC and the Government of Mexico (with the support of the state of Jalisco), will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, on 16 and 17 April 2013. In June 2012, at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), signatory countries to the Declaration stated: "Twenty years after the Earth Summit, we reiterate that, as recognized in Principle 10 of the Rio D…

ECLAC Highlights Challenges of New Chinese Government and Its Relations with Latin America

12 Apr 2013 | News

China will become the world's largest economy by 2020 (in terms of GDP), and will be an increasingly important global player. This new position provides the new administration headed by President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang with a series of internal and external challenges, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). On Friday 12 April, the Director of the International Trade and Integration Division of this United Nations commission, Osvaldo Rosales, took part in the seminar China and its challenges in the era of Xi Jinping, organized by the Columbi…

Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC Took Part in OECD Workshop

4 Apr 2013 | News

The Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Antonio Prado, spoke about structural heterogeneity and inequality in a roundtable at the OECD Workshop on Inclusive Growth, which was held at the OECD headquarters in Paris on Wednesday 3 April. Mr. Prado took part in the second session of the meeting - "Towards a Roadmap for Inclusive Growth Policies" - which focused on discussing the main challenges of identifying inclusive pro-growth policies that can also lead to better results in this area. The Workshop on Inclusive Growth is an activit…

Executive Secretary of ECLAC Visits the Internet Hub for Latin America and the Caribbean in Uruguay

3 Apr 2013 | News

As part of her visit to Montevideo to attend the Fourth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, on Wednesday 3 April, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena, visited the central offices of the Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre (LACNIC, which is the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry) and the Internet Hub for Latin America and the Caribbean. Ms. Bárcena was received by Raúl Echeberría, Executive Director of LACNIC, Pablo Bello, Secretary-General General of the Latin American Association of Research Ce…

In Costa Rica, Officials and Experts Analyse Links between Autonomy, Innovation and the Work of Women

19 Feb 2013 | News

Around 40 public policymakers and business sector representatives from Costa Rica met on Monday 18 February in the capital, San José, to discuss the relationship between the productive development of economic growth sectors that introduce technological innovation and the level of female labour participation in such sectors. This is the main focus of the ECLAC project on the Promotion of productive development through the inclusion of women in quality jobs in Central America, which will be implemented in the next few months in Costa Rica and El Salvador with funding from the German Agency for T…

How ICTs Can Contribute to Inclusive Education in Latin America

11 Feb 2013 | News

A new publication by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) analyses eight cases of good practice in which information and communications technologies (ICTs) can be used in the Latin American school system to contribute to inclusion and reduce social inequalities. The document Las tecnologías digitales frente a los desafíos de una educación inclusiva en América Latina. Algunos casos de buenas prácticas (Digital technologies facing the challenges of an inclusive education in Latin America. Some cases of good practice) was drafted as part of the activities …

Latin American and European Union Ministers Will Take Part in Roundtable at ECLAC

24 Jan 2013 | News

On Friday 25 January 2013, Ministers from several Latin American and Caribbean and European Union countries will take part in the High-level roundtable on equality and development: Cooperation and public policies to narrow structural gaps, which will be held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The meeting, which is scheduled for 9:00 a.m., was organized as part of the First Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States and the European Union (CELAC-EU…

UN Deputy Secretary-General Participated in the 1st CELAC-EU Summit

24 Jan 2013 | News

Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, participated in the 1st Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU), which took place in Santiago, Chile, on 26 and 27 January and was attended by representatives from 60 countries. During his stay in Chile, Mr. Eliasson held bilateral meetings with the Chilean President, Sebastián Piñera, as well as with other Heads of State and senior dignitaries from the region. The Deputy Secretary-General also chaired the meeting of the Regional Coordination Mechanism, organized by the…

ECLAC Seminar on Emergence of Middle Class in Latin America

8 Jan 2013 | News

The development of the middle class in Latin America and the Caribbean over the past decade and the characteristics of the region's economic mobility are some of the topics that will be discussed by renowned experts in a seminar to be held on Friday 11 January 2013 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The Seminar on economic mobility and the emergence of the middle class in Latin America, which has been organized by ECLAC and the World Bank, will be opened at 11.00 a.m. by Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC Executive Secretary, and …

Expert Group Meeting on “Knowledge Management in the Public Sector” and “Knowledge Strategies for Development: Knowledge Networks”

17 Aug 2011 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean is convening a combined Regional Expert Group Meeting on “Knowledge Management in the Public Sector”; and “Knowledge Strategies for Development: Knowledge Networks”, which will be held at its Port of Spain Office from Wednesday 24 to Friday 26 August 2011. The findings of a report recently prepared by the ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean on the topic of Knowledge Management on the Public Sector will be presented at the meeting, and will serve as the basis for the delib…

The International Labour Organization opens its historic 100th International Labour Conference

1 Jun 2011 | News

The International Labour Organization opens its historic 100th International Labour Conference in Geneva on 1 June with a call for a new era of social justice amid high global unemployment and underemployment, and public concern over the employment situation after the recent global financial crisis. The 100th session on 1-17 June will debate current and future challenges in the world of work, including: record-high unemployment rates; a global youth employment crisis; the extension of social protection coverage to the 8 in 10 persons in the world without any such protection; the role of labour…

ECLAC Launched Regional Broadband Observatory

27 May 2011 | News

Mobile broadband has been one of the fastest growing telecommunications services in Latin America and the Caribbean in recent years, thanks to its wide availability and the rise in the number of payment options and contracts for users. However, such growth has been uneven, and this results in a wide gap between the region's countries and more developed nations. According to data from the Regional Broadband Observatory (ORBA), which was launched on May 26, the percentage of the Latin American and Caribbean population who have mobile broadband services went from 0.2% in 2005 to 4.7% in 2009, whi…

Global economic crisis opens up new space for discrimination at work, ILO says

16 May 2011 | News

In the new Global Report on Equality at Work 2011, the International Labour Office (ILO) notes that in spite of continuous positive advances in anti-discrimination legislation, the global economic and social crisis has led to a higher risk of discrimination against certain groups such as migrant labour. “Economically adverse times are a breeding ground for discrimination at work and in society more broadly. We see this with the rise of populist solutions”, said ILO Director-General Juan Somavia, adding that “this threatens painstaking achievements of several decades”. The report, entitled Equa…

World Malaria Day 2011: Achieving Progress and Impact

25 Apr 2011 | News

In 2009, about 3.3 billion people - half of the world's population - were at risk of malaria. Every year, this leads to about 250 million malaria cases and nearly 800 thousand deaths. People living in the poorest countries are the most vulnerable. World Malaria Day - which was instituted by the World Health Assembly at its 60th session in May 2007 - is a day for recognizing the global effort to provide effective control of malaria. It is an opportunity: for countries in the affected regions to learn from each other's experiences and support each other's efforts; for new donors to join a globa…

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